Monthly Archives: February 2014

Capital is a system of social relations of extraction. Its success is based on the appropriation of nature and of the collective of creativity of all of those who labour. Whether it is land, energies housed beneath its surface, seas, … Continue reading →

From the crisis-scape research collective and the film maker Ross Domoney of Aletheia Photos comes a striking film study of Athens and Greece under the reign of crisis. From the appropriation of public land for private accumulation, to terror against … Continue reading →

A reflection on anthropology, on the search/need for a negative anthropology, in which all sure grounds of knowledge of the other crumble, in which all of the hierarchical theories and categories for the ordering of the other’s life are dismantled: … Continue reading →

At 7:20 in the morning, on the 31st if January, the riot police of the munincipal authorities of Madrid closed off the street, calle Tribulete in the neighbourhood of Lavapiés, to execute the eviction of Antonio Argobia, a 54 year … Continue reading →

For Pete Seeger, communist militant, first in the Party, and then beyond it, singer and story teller of America’s working classes and poor, co-founder of The Almanac Singers, and later The Weavers, who passed away on the 27th of January, … Continue reading →

From a public lecture in Athens (16/11/2013), at the invitation of and organised by the Nicos Poulantzas Institute and SYRIZA Youth, and originally posted on Chronos … A reflection on the destiny of democracy today here in Athens is in … Continue reading →